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Let's list the 1001 movies we think everyone should see before they die. If there is more than one version of a movie, please include the year of release of your preferred version. Also, I'm interested in making a list, so please refrain from posting a lot of videos unless there's a scene that you feel best defines a particular movie and you want to encourage us to see that movie.

I'll start my list, in no particular order. I won't number them, because I'm pretty sure there will be a lot of duplicated titles.

Casablanca
The Wizard of Oz
The Wolf Man (1941)
Dracula (1931)
Psycho (1960)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Godzilla (1956)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
The Bicycle Thief
City Lights (1931)
Modern Times (1936)
Seven Samurai (1954)
The Grapes of Wrath
Norma Rae
Hamlet (1948)
They Live (1988)
Billy Elliot
Little Miss Sunshine
You Can't Take It With You (1938)
My Cousin Vinny
Sounder (1972)
Finding Nemo
True Grit (1969)
Dr. Strangelove
Duck Soup (1933)
North by Northwest
Patton
The Princess Bride
The Celluloid Closet
Paths of Glory
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Captains Courageous (1937)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
An American Werewolf in London
Lassie Come Home (1943)
Flipper (1963)
Benji (1974)
Pride of the Yankees
House of Wax (1953)
Beetlejuice
Edward Scissorhands
The Maltese Falcon

not a complete list, of course. There will be more later.
 
Once
Traffic
Restrepo
Amadeus
Memento
Seeing Red
Sling Blade
Citizen Kane
Chasing Amy
The Warriors
True Romance
Before Sunrise
Erin Brockovich
Apocalypse Now
The Big Lebowski
Leaving Las Vegas
Back to the Future
Shaun of the Dead
Do the Right Thing
The Breakfast Club
12 Angry Men (1957)
Léon: The Professional
The Motorcycle Diaries
Shawshank Redemption
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
 
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Funny Girl
Singin' in the Rain
Yellow Submarine
A Hard Day's Night
Oklahoma!
In the Heat of the Night
The Odd Couple (1968)
Some Like It Hot
A Shot in the Dark
A Streetcar Named Desire
Dr. No
Bonnie and Clyde
M (1931)
Nosferatu (1922)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Frankenstein (1931)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Son of Frankenstein (1939)
Young Frankenstein
The Mummy (1932)
King Kong (1933)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
The Invisible Man (1933)
The Ox-Bow Incident
Rebel Without A Cause
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
 
A Patch of Blue
The Bridges of Madison County
Hachi
Laura
Leave her to Heaven
Notorious
Guess Who's Coming to Diner ?
Frida
North by Northwest
The Edge
All That Heaven Allows
Bridget Jones
The Prince of Tide
Strangers on A Train
Dial M For Murder
The End of the Affair
Some Like it Hot
Born Free
Ring of Bright Water
The Ghost and Mrs Muir
Blithe Spirit
Black Narcissus
The Piano
The Railway Children
Monty Python and The Holy Grail
The Housesitter
The Sandpiper
The Night of the Iguana
The Letter
Inside Daisy Clover
Castaway
The Ladykillers
The Innocents
Black Narcissus
A Canterbury Tale
Shadow of A Doubt
Alive
Lassie
Murder Most Foul (Agatha Christie's Miss Marple movies)
The Notebook
Dr Zhivago
Cactus Flower
Bridge on the River Kwai
Howards End
People Will Talk
The Remains of the Day
Mrs Miniver
Ruthless People
La Vie est Un Long Fleuve Tranquille
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
African Queen
Out of Africa
Wurthering Heights
The Graduate
Four Weddings and A Funeral
A Place in The Sun
The Pianist
Avanti
A Passage to India
The Marrying Man
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
Father of the Bride
Arsenic and Old Lace
The Great Escape
Like Water for Chocolate
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Birds
Mildrid Pierce
The Cow and I
Marius and Fanny
Don Camillo
Pretty Woman
The Elephant Man

 
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Ring of Bright Water - O.M.G. Someone else who remembers that movie! I've seen it only once - in the theater - when I was ten! I wouldn't mind seeing it again.:D

Adding to my list:

Bringing Up Baby
Adam's Rib
 
Baby Boom
While You Were Sleeping
One True Thing
 
The Godfather (the first)
Good Fellas
The Treasure of The Sierra Madre
The Midnight Cowboy
Saving Private Ryan
The Bridge Over The River Kwai
The Guns Of Navarone
The Great Escape
Lawrence Of Arabia

...

I'm forgetting a lot of them.
 
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Ring of Bright Water - O.M.G. Someone else who remembers that movie! I've seen it only once - in the theater - when I was ten! I wouldn't mind seeing it again.:D

Adding to my list:

Bringing Up Baby
Adam's Rib
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"Hailed a masterpiece when it was first published, the story of Gavin Maxwell's life with otters on the remote west coast of Scotland remains one of the most lyrical, moving descriptions of a man's relationship with the natural world. ""One of the outstanding wildlife books of all time.""-New York Herald Tribune First published 1960 by Longmans, Green & Co"

I bought this book as a gift for someone but have not read it myself. I must put it on my to read list as it is based on a real life story.

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I'm adding two movies that are considered racist and controversial, but I think they should be seen at least once for the curiosity value:

Birth of a Nation, the 1915 silent from D.W. Griffith, with its positive portrayal of the KKK, viewers will find this disturbing, but critics hail DWG as a master storyteller and innovative filmmaker.

Gone With the Wind, which detractors say contains negative stereotypes of black people. After seeing either or both movies, it may help to find and watch the episode of The Carol Burnett Show which spoofs GWTW. And yes, the studio (Warner Bros) WAS fined for Clark Gable's closing line in the movie.
 
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